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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 4804085" data-attributes="member: 12377">Another thing Wizards could have done would be to bury the alignment in the flavor text where it belongs.For example, suppose gold dragon didn't have that silly &quot;Alignment Unaligned&quot; entry.&nbsp; Instead, one of the monster lore DCs would say something like, &quot;Most gold dragons are unaligned, but some genuinely care about lesser races, becoming exemplars of good or lawful good.&quot;&nbsp; A species like hobgoblin might say, &quot;Hobgoblins on the whole are evil, power-hungry, and cruel, although some members of their society may be considered unaligned.&quot;&nbsp; A creature like mind flayers might say, &quot;By their very nature, mind flayers are inherently evil; exceptions are exceedingly rare.&quot;By keeping the alignment in the flavor text, it would present it in context of the creature's behavior and could give a more elaborate alignment breakdown, which is way more useful than a silly one-word alignment entry which can only serve to pigeonhole monsters.&nbsp;-- 77IM</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 4804085, member: 12377"] Another thing Wizards could have done would be to bury the alignment in the flavor text where it belongs. For example, suppose gold dragon didn't have that silly "[b]Alignment[/b] Unaligned" entry. Instead, one of the monster lore DCs would say something like, "Most gold dragons are unaligned, but some genuinely care about lesser races, becoming exemplars of good or lawful good." A species like hobgoblin might say, "Hobgoblins on the whole are evil, power-hungry, and cruel, although some members of their society may be considered unaligned." A creature like mind flayers might say, "By their very nature, mind flayers are inherently evil; exceptions are exceedingly rare." By keeping the alignment in the flavor text, it would present it in context of the creature's behavior and could give a more elaborate alignment breakdown, which is way more useful than a silly one-word alignment entry which can only serve to pigeonhole monsters. -- 77IM [/QUOTE]

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